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“Extreme Danger”: Harris Earns a Stunning Endorsement Over Trump
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Agreed. I am not stunned by this. "We have to pick the less shitty option" is not new, and it does not interest me. I'd be interested in, say, the world actually getting better, rather than just getting worse at either a slower or faster speed.
Yeah but that’s not the choice offered to you. And you can only make the choices you are offered.
Not true. That is the self - disempowerment that these kinds of messages are meant to promote. But you can do more than and something other than vote for genociders and tell other people to vote for genociders.
You can deligitimize support for genocide, for example. That is a small thing to do, but it I'd also what this self-disempowerment is intended to prevent. Beyond that, you can join pro-Palestinian orgs that identify the US and Israel as the agents of genocide and who work to build power based on coalition-building, mass engagement, and education rather than NGO-style funding and bureaucracy and self-promotion for its leadership.
That is the perspective of one who does not see beyond conditioned existence.
You can vote for the least worst candidate, and also work to build momentum for the radical change we actually need. Just withholding a vote doesn't achieve anything. The political class isn't going to look at low turnout and say "damn, elections are getting unpopular, we'd better revolutionize the political system." Vote, and also work on building popular support for real change.
Humans tend to prefer money to compassion. And that money comes from business practices that make the world less suitable for humans to live in. I think humans will kill themselves before they love each other.
we've been picking the less shitty options for generations and it's painted us into this corner of a choice between a democrat genocide enabler and a republican who wishes he could.
what indication is there that doing the same thing we've always done will make things better?
Yes, absolutely. One must work for justice, not support those who actively work against us.